Graduate College

The Graduate College of the University of Delaware has been established in order to better lead and incentivize University-wide partnerships among administration, academic colleges, faculty, staff, and students. To that end, it will:

• Support curriculum innovation to enable both university-wide achievement of excellence in graduate and professional education and substantial enrollment growth,
• Facilitate innovative, high-quality excellent interdisciplinary programs,
• Coordinate professional skills-building opportunities and career planning resources and programming of high value to all graduate students,
• Prepare graduate students to be leaders throughout their careers in a broad spectrum of professions,
• Foster diversity and inclusion,
• Advocate for and support high-quality graduate student life services,
• Advocate for the importance of excellence in graduate education and research training, and its multifaceted relationships to faculty research, undergraduate education, and community engagement,
• Improve recruitment, retention, mentoring, community-building, and alumni engagement
• Providing centralized support for market research, public relations and communications, and data-rich, evidence-based decision-making related to both capacity planning and program intake/outcomes assessment,
• Enhancing funding activity.

- Graduate College Bylaws - Approved by the Senate February 2019